VIDEO: KCAI President Tony Jones on art and tech
February 2, 2017 | Meghan LeVota
The Kansas City Art Institute’s new David T. Beals Studio for Art and Technology is a state-of-the-art facility that’s serving the school’s more than 600 student-artists. Watch the video below to hear Tony Jones, president of KCAI, discuss the facility as well as the intersection of art and technology.
To read more about the studio, click here.
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